Security Support Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Security Support Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Security Support Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Security Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
South East median daily rate £325 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,084 1,548 1,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 91.60% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 841 1,059
10th Percentile £325 £313 £305
25th Percentile £413 £434 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 85 59
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.93 £17.11
25th Percentile £18.48 £51.52 £29.75
Median hourly rate £34.80 £61.60 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -43.51% +8.29% +118.79%
75th Percentile £69.06 £75.40 £72.17
90th Percentile £87.43 £94.50 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +124.72%

Security Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Security Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Support Engineer in Berkshire

Security Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Support Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Support Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Security Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Support Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Support Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Security Support Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Support Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bracknell - 1 - -
Reading - 1 £325 - 2
Security Support Engineer
South East

Security Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 21 August 2025, Security Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Security Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Tanium
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) French Language
2 1 (50.00%) German Language
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) FireEye
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall

Security Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) French Language
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) FireEye
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium